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Page 222 - Case 3. Mrs. R. Referred by Dr. Mercur, with a history of three operations for the removal of a growth involving the entire upper chest, the suprasternal notch, and the left triangle of the neck up as far as the insertion of the sternocleido-mastoid. Her voice, from encroachment upon the larynx, was a hoarse whisper. The chin was fixed by a scar tissue, the head could be moved with difficulty from the involvment of the sterno-cleido-mastoid and digastric muscles.
Page 47 - ... The regulator accomplishes this purpose. Fig. 30 shows a diagram of the very simple connections of the system and gives the relative positions occupied by the transformer, tube, and regulator. Fig. 31 gives an enlarged view of the regulator, a description of which and its method of operation is given as follows: A piece of J-inch glass tubing is supported vertically and its bottom end is contracted into a .inch glass tube which extends to the main lighting tube.
Page 182 - If we suspend a very fine, long magnetized needle wtth a very fine silk fibre and approach the eye to this needle carefully the needle will be found to rotate towards the particle if it is iron or steel. If we approach the other end of the needle it will recede and eventually turn around to point its north pole toward the metal. By approaching the...
Page 219 - MJ H , female, aged 34 years, was referred to me by Dr. Maurice H. Richardson of Boston, on April 19, 1901. The patient had a well-marked family history of malignant disease. She had been operated upon three years before for what was regarded as a fibroid tumor of the uterus; tubes and ovaries also were removed. No microscopical examination was made. Two months previously she had first noticed a hard tumor in the lower part of the abdominal wall in the region of the cicatrix. There was no pain, no...
Page 285 - I was compelled to get crutches, and it was with the greatest difficulty that I was able to get to General B's at the hour appointed.
Page 254 - In the majority of cases, however, we find that a certain amount of the tumor will remain, and may be removed or let alone, as may be thought best by the attending physician, as either method seems to offer equally good results, as the tumors have shown no tendency to grow in the eighteen cases that have been under my observation for over seven years. In six cases where the tumor was subsequently removed to help the patients' peace of mind the characteristic tissue had disappeared.
Page 202 - ... granulating material, with subsequent degeneration and the formation of connective tissue, which eventually contracts, causing the deformities of entropion or ectropion. Treatment. — The chief aim of the treatment must be to check the development of the hypertrophy of the conjunctiva and bring about absorption of the granulations, in order to prevent the destruction of the mucous membrane and to reduce the previous results of the disease to a minimum. In the light of modern electro-therapeutics...
Page 224 - Sarcoma, there is a prompt and wonderful retrograde, until tissue like the eyelid or the jaw bone, which has been supplanted and apparently destroyed by the Neoplasm, are restored to former conditions, ossification promptly taking place in the bone Sarcoma which shrinks to its former shape, while in the eyelid a restoration occurs, not only of the normal edges and surfaces of the lid out of the chaos of a hyperplastic tumor, but the function of the lost hair-bulbs is restored, and the eyelashes grow...
Page 221 - ... abdominal wall became apparent. He suffered considerable pain and rapidly became cachectic. He fell off in weight, his appetite failed, and an examination of the abdomen, by his son and Dr. Adair, revealed the presence of a very extensive growth, involving the entire right rectus muscle and a large portion of the left. An operation was decided upon, and was performed by Dr. Langfitt, at the St. John's General Hospital, assisted by Dr. Adair and his son, Dr. W. The operation disclosed such extensive...
Page 166 - I fix the tube so it is about 7 inches above the board. The tube can be moved to either side, and a point is marked on the extreme edge of. the board on each side...